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Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute - http://fsi.org.za - founded in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. Jacques is a regular contributor to public debates on politics, science and morality in the South African media, via columns, op-eds, television and radio. He blogs on these and other topics on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za - and is active on Twitter as @JacquesR . He believes that the world be a far better place if nobody wanted to read clickbait, and could all explain why.

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Navigating The ‘New Normal’ And The Threats To Liberties After Lockdowns 0
- Human Rights, South Africa
- 03.06.2020.
South Africa moved to level 3 of our Coronavirus lockdown on June 1. More economic activity was permitted, we can exercise anytime (within the curfew hours), buy alcohol, and attend religious services (in groups of 50 or fewer). We won’t be able to buy tobacco, even though the state’s case for this restriction is threadbare.
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Politics In A Pandemic: The Rationality Of Restrictions 0
- Africa, Coronavirus Africa (Covid 19), Politics, South Africa
- 15.05.2020.
South Africa has been under lockdown for seven weeks now, in what seems to be one of the most restrictive Covid-19 lockdowns anywhere in the world. And while most people I talk to still support the lockdown in general, there seems to be increasing dissent regarding some of its regulations – even outside of the
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Who will we be “after” Covid-19?0
- Coronavirus Africa (Covid 19), South Africa
- 20.04.2020.
When I was selling books on the floor of a branch of Olsson’s Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore, MD 30 years ago, Robert Pirsig’s Lila: An Inquiry into Morals arrived in one of our regular shipments from the distributors. Lila was the sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992.
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Coronavirus Lockdown in South Africa: Bioethics And Miscellany 0
- Africa, Coronavirus Africa (Covid 19), Health Care, South Africa
- 06.04.2020.
Today is day 11 of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown, which has been implemented with a resolve rarely seen in our country, with the military deployed to assist the police in keeping people in their homes. Unfortunately, neither they – nor the police – are (in general) accustomed to much besides being authoritarian. They certainly don’t
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- 29.11.2019.

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And ask what GoK is doing about it. What is the plan? twitter.com/mutuma_m…

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Pendant qu 'au Togo une seule famille régente le pays depuis 54 ans à cause de la France, Aux Seychelles, l'opposition vient de remporter les élections. Par cette victoire, l'opposition vient de tourner la page de 43 ans de règne d'un seul parti aux Seychelles.

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Without wanting to confer any credibility on the idea of “crowdsourcing a moral code”, this is a fun read on the “Am I the asshole” (AITA) subReddit (which is itself often entertaining): theguardian.com/tech…

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I hope the interview will make references to her past positions especially regarding free and fair elections, nighttime swearing-ins and the appointment of commissioners to the elections commission. twitter.com/Ali_Manz…

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Anything to do with this? twitter.com/nancyoku… pic.twitter.com/BsZn…

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I keep asking why the housing market data comes from the players and how reliable it is. There is a bit of a conflict, no? twitter.com/David_In…

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